• torknorggren@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I mean, so many games made so little sense back then. If you could program it, I think they gave it a green light. Qbert? Berserk? Even Pac Man, what the hell is that guy?

    • Rhaedas@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      I remember a friend dragging me to the arcade to see what he had found there. It was Q-Bert. Now of course it was a wild game, but he said, “no wait, watch this”, proceeded to jump off the blocks, and I heard the mechanical clunk at the bottom of the machine. Someone came up with that just for the F of it…brilliant.

    • Data's Cat Spot@startrek.websiteOP
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      11 months ago

      I think for a lot of them, they must have come up with some cool looking sprites and then tried to make a game/story around that.